Word: ain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Battle Hymns & Electoral Votes. The week began amid a Dixieland band smash of Runnin' Wild! and Ain't She Sweet? as the President walked into a $100-a-plate Republican dinner at the Sheraton-Park Hotel with Mamie Eisenhower on his arm. Ike gave the 3,000 guests no soothing syrup...
...number of other songs with the André Previn Trio (Previn was musical director of the film). Singer Carroll's personal Catfish Row apparently runs east from the Waldorf-Astoria's Empire Room, but at her best-in Oh, I Can't Sit Down and It Ain't Necessarily So-she gives the familiar lyrics a delightfully carbonated tingle all her own. Previn and his men swing behind her as discreetly as a trio of hula dancers skating on thin...
...London school playground, a little girl cried to a boy who had muffed her throw: "Cor blimey, you ain't 'arf a butterfmgers." The boy shouted amiably...
...takes his learning where he finds it, slowly works out a philosophy ("Never Make an Offer. Budge only for Folding Money"). But he is no cynic, and he cross-questions would-be disillusioners sharply: "Now accordin' to you the newspapers ain't reliable. Is The Times lies? But if it's gonna lie anyway, why is it so borin'?" At eleven, Horatio knew "the local civics of the vice squad ... In architecture, how to make time bombs; in interpersonal relations, how to make zip guns ... In philosophy he knew that the Future Lies Ahead...
...Beer ain't all! One evening a friend of ours returned from Porky's to my parents' home, pleased to report that "several young college students were there, drinking-of all things -tomato juice!" They were (of course!) drinking Bloody Marys...